Washington Post, February 19, 2005
By Howard Kurtz

In all the recent hoo-hah over Dan Rather, Eason Jordan and Jeff Gannon, the plot line has been clearly established: bloggers versus the mainstream media.

From one viewpoint, it's brave, tireless, iconoclastic citizen journalists using new technology to take on the big, arrogant, lazy and biased MSM (main street media).

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